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… and it was outsourced! The Pentagon gave a controversial U.K. PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could [...]read more

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By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The films were signed off by former General David Petraeus—then commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House, said ...

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How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda.
This article was originally published by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The Pentagon gave a controversial U....

Per new discoveries revealed by the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the United States government paid over $500mm to a British public relations firm, Bell Pottinger, between May 2007 and December 2011 to create fake Al Qaeda...